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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/michael_stonebraker_interview/
SciDB: Relational daddy answers Google, Hadoop, NoSQL
Stonebraker doesn't drop ACID
Posted in Software, 13th September 2010 03:47 GMT
Mention "relational databases" and a few people's names might spring to mind: Oracle's Larry Ellison, thanks to his billions, or Monty Widenius, main author of the ferociously popular MySQL. Geekier types might plump for Oracle's former Dr DBA Ken Jacobs or open-sourcer Brian Akers, who helped architect MySQL.
Michael Stonebraker's name probably doesn't jump very high in many minds outside computer science, yet it was Stonebraker's quick thinking 40 years ago that paved the way for the industry these better-knowns call home.
A faculty member of the University of California in Berkeley, Stonebraker seized on the research of IBM mathematician Tedd Codd to start work co-developing the industry's first relational database in 1973: Ingres. Ellison wasn't around until 1977, while it took lumbering IBM, owner of the mighty DB2, another eight years before it had something.
Ingres fed into Sybase as Sybase founder Robert Epstein was one of those who worked on Ingres, and then Microsoft's SQL Server. Through his various teaching positions, Stonebraker has also schooled CEOs, CTOs, founders and vice presidents of engineering at VMware, Sleepycat Software, Tibco, Oracle, Documentum, Alfresco and Cloudera. Along the way, Stonebraker found time to deliver Postgres, Mariposa, Aurora, C-Store and H-Store and help found startups to sell and support them: Illustra Information Technologies, Cohera, Streambase, Vertica and VoltDB.
After 40 years, though, Stonebraker finally thinks it's no longer a "one-size-fits-all" world and that there could be more to life than just relational. His latest work, SciDB, is going post-relational to serve the needs of those working with big data - large volumes of information crunched on thousands of nodes in distributed data centers.
"In the 1980s, the 'answer' was if all you wanted to do was business data processing, then it was relational databases. Try to stretch SQL to do everything, though, and that's an unnatural act."
And as this pioneer from the past keeps working, he's come into conflict with those on today's leading edge - the NoSQL movement - as he's put the sacred cows of the Web 2.0 crowd in their place for cheaply sacrificing the benefits of the relational technology he pioneered.
As autumn kicks in, the 66-year-old MIT adjunct professor is on the cusp of releasing the first code under open source for SciDB, a collaboration with long-time colleague Dave DeWitt.
SciDB is Stonebraker's big-data analytics play in an era of Google's MapReduce, Apache Software Foundation's Hadoop and the NoSQL evangelists who seem to be setting the pace, if not hogging the limelight, on big data in massive data centers today.
The database targets boffins, number crunchers and computer scientists and will scale, it's claimed, from megabytes of data to petabytes running on tens of thousands - all on industry standard, multi-core x86 servers with little human administration.
"The 'answer' is the current thing I'm focused on," Stonebraker told The Reg about the work on SciDB.
"The 'answer' in the 1980s was there was only one database market. In 2010, there are business processing databases with OLTP, science databases, document databases. There are genomic databases. The horizontal world of the database space has mushroomed.
"In the 1980s, the 'answer' was if all you wanted to do was business data processing, then it was relational databases. Try to stretch SQL to do everything, though, and that's an unnatural act."
According to Stonebraker, the relational model he helped popularize doesn't work in data-intensive scientific discovery because the data is multidimensional.
Combining and sharing that data means complicated engineering work on the part of developers and database admins, and it produces bottlenecks. Scientists have been rolling their own architectures or - recently - deploying Hadoop, the open-source implementation of Google's MapReduce.
SciDB goes beyond the relational world Stonebraker helped pioneer by swapping rows and columns for mathematical arrays that put fewer restrictions on the data and can work in any number of dimensions. Stonebraker claimed arrays are 100 or so times faster than a RDBMS on this class of problem.
A database for all seasons
It's a world away from where Stonebraker started. In addition to being multidimensional and offering array-based scaling from megabytes to petabytes and running on tens of thousands of clustered nodes, SciDB's will be write once read many, allow bulk load rather than single road insert, provide parallel computation, be designed for automatic rather than manual administration, and work with R, Matlab, IDL, C++ and Python.
SciDB's being piloted by healthcare products giant Novartis, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Fermilab and an unnamed Russian astronomy project.
"Postgres is no good at the data warehouse market because the science market wants arrays, they don't want tables. But arrays are impossibly slow on top of tables. Postgres has arrays, but they were supported by blobs, so weren't first-class citizens," Stonebraker said.
"I learned if you want to advance the data warehouse market and want to go fast, you need a column store, not a row store...There are unbelievable advantages to specialization."
SciDB's is Stonebraker's biggest departure from the rules of the relational road. It's a journey that in the last five years has seen Stonebraker reinvent different parts of the relational stack.
Battle of the rows
Stonebraker reckons the relational staples such as logging, locking, latching and buffer management that have helped pioneer and maintain a crucial feature of databases - data integrity according to the atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability (ACID) principles - have also become its biggest burden. Processing alone to make these features work soaks up 90 per cent of a transaction's time in terms of CPU cycles, slowing performance and wasting power.
The serial inventor's answer to this particular problem was initially VoltDB. His database speeds things up by moving data into memory and using distributed data partitioning with multi-core processors and server memory. ACID is retained because VoltDB uses single-threaded partitions that run autonomously while data is replicated in a cluster for high availability.
VoltDB claims to be 45 times faster than an Oracle relational database on a Dell PowerEdge R610 cluster based on Intel's Xeon 5550 with near-linear scaling on a 12-node cluster. VoltDB was the product of H-Store-project, a collaboration between Stonebraker's MIT home, Brown University, Yale University and Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Before VoltDB, there was Vertica. This used a column-oriented, shared-nothing architecture with a massively parallel processing (MPP) engine and data compression to reduce storage and speed queries. Vertica claims query results between 50 and 200 times faster than databases that store data in rows. Vertica started as the C-Store project also with Brown and MIT, plus Brandeis University and University of Massachusetts, Boston.
"Talk to the MapReduce guys and they are fanatical about 'not invented here'... MapReduce was written by people who don't understand databases at all."
Stonebraker reckons columnar-databases are quicker than relational databases because they know what they are looking for. They don't need to waste time sorting rows.
VoltDB, Versa, and - soon - SciDB take Stonebraker into a growing tussle against NoSQL over which architecture is "right" in a fight for mindshare and for customers. SciDB is listed as a NoSQL database, here.
Facing off against SciDB, Vertica and VoltDB in a range of scenarios are Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra, CouchDB, Amazon's SimpleDB and Memcached - the latter being the distributed memory caching companion to MySQL used for scale and speed. Helping push them are their creators such as Google and Amazon or startups like Cloudera, mega-scale customers such as Twitter and Facebook, and an army of evangelists convinced that NoSQL is the future.
Sparks flew between Stonebraker and the NoSQL movement in 2008 when the relational expert incensed MapReduce fans in a joint blog with DeWitt for calling MapReduce a "giant step backward in the programming paradigm for large-scale data intensive applications".
Stonebraker and DeWitt professed amazement at the hype over how MapReduce represented a "paradigm shift in the development of scalable, data-intensive applications" and called MapReduce a good idea for writing "certain types" of general-purpose computations but lacking many tools and features commonly associated with DBMS that users have come to depend on.
Bloggers stormed back, damning these "so-called" database experts for "not getting" data in the cloud and - like jealous suitors jumping to their lover's defense - demanded a retraction of this "highly inaccurate article" as if it had slandered their beloved MapReduce.
Most missed the point: Stonebraker and DeWitt weren't calling MapReduce a bad database. They were picking up on the fact that MapReduce - like its open-source clone Hadoop - are being used as if they are databases, with more data being dumped in them by customers on a daily basis and with those customers then needing to transact and analyze that data. It's a problem that's been creeping into Memcached and NoSQL, with people now trying to make Memcached and NoSQL work with relational databases.
Was Stonebraker surprised by the flames?
"The NoSQL guys are people who know nothing about databases and their first reaction is to lash out, so I'm not surprised [by the reaction]," he said.
"Talk to the MapReduce guys and they are fanatical about 'not invented here'... MapReduce was written by people who don't understand databases at all," an unapologetic Stonebraker continued. "They produced a thing that worked for their crawling applications. MapReduce was written to support the processing pipeline behind Google."
Turning MapReduce and Hadoop into databases would take a long time and a huge rewrite to inject things like data repositories, indexes, query languages and updates.
Does he recant in the face of such a flaming? Far from it. He's as critical as ever.
"If you are over 35, you are over the hill apparently in math," he claimed. "In computer science, the grey beards like me are still viable, and it's for this reason that what goes around comes around. The young guys haven't seen it before and the problem with our computer science education system is the lessons from the past seem to get lost."
And, it would seem, Google agrees with him.
Accidental SQL supporter
Stonebraker's got little time for those who claim it's the language that's slowing down databases serving big data. Hadoop is written in Java, CouchDB in Erlang, and in-memory key-value persistent storage engine Memcached in C. For Stonebraker, the interface is the problem, not the language. Hence Volt has been rewritten to remove 90 per cent of the overhead associated with OLTP.
"I'm not a particular fan of SQL but I don't mind it. Jettisoning it just to, say, "get record" is a huge mistake."
Interestingly, Stonebroker wrote Ingres in QUEL and left SQL to Ellison. The industry, and history, swung behind SQL, helping catapult Oracle to today's number-one position while Ingres didn't switch to SQL until version six in the mid 1990s - too late to catch Oracle.
ACID fan and language lessons
"I can remember a debate in the '70s: assembly language jockeys would say C is too slow. I need to control my own registers. Twenty-five to 30 years later, we know that's not true and compilers are as good as or better than humans at producing machine-optimized code. Just like you'd never bet on assembly language today. You should not bet on low-level database repositories by alleging they are faster than a higher-level language."
As far as Stonebraker is concerned, these NoSQL architectures were built to fix specific problems by the companies that made them. Now, they are being peddled to the wider world. And that's the real problem because they undermine the principles of ACID that have helped guarantee the performance and reliability of data and that have fundamentally underpinned relational and Stonebraker's work. Even as he's gone non-relational with SciDB, Stonebraker said SciDB will comply with ACID.
Sure, Memcached, for example, is popular - used by Twitter, YouTube and Digg - and it's often used in conjunction with MySQL. But Memcached is not ACID-compliant. It might be fine at processing observations, tweets, videos and news, but customers outside the world of Web 2.0 clouds won't want to run things like financials through a Memcached system. Memcached is not alone: most NoSQLers make no bones about dumping ACID.
Stonebraker is more than just an MIT academic - he's part businessman: he's co-founder and chief technology officer for VoltDB, and a co-founder and board member of Vertica. That makes this more than a battle of architectures - it's a fight for customers' dollars.
Stonebraker reckons the NoSQL community has ditched ACID because it's "too expensive" but installing an ACID-free database is a bet against the future. As organizations grow, they will take decisions that inevitably put more of their important data into such systems and it's then that data integrity as guaranteed by ACID will matter.
"I'm a huge fan of ACID," Stonebraker confessed. "The database transaction model has served us well for 30 years and essentially everyone who jettisons it regrets it because it gives you a systematic underpinning for your data. A lot of the NoSQL guys jettison ACID and that's a huge mistake because, by and large, the NoSQL guys are not database experts.
"You might not need ACID now, but database applications live a very long time...requirements may change over that time. If you decide not to run ACID, make sure you never need it in the future," Stonebraker said.
ACID is what businesses need for mission-critical stuff. "I have a friend at a large telco who's not interested in NoSQL because they give up ACID compliance," Stonebraker reckoned.
Of course, Stonebraker is more than just an MIT academic. He's part businessman. He's co-founder and chief technology officer for VoltDB, and a co-founder and board member of Vertica. That makes this more than a battle of architectures. It's a fight for customers' dollars. It was no coincidence that Stonebraker and DeWitt's attack on MapReduce was launched from their Vertica blog.
Vertica's customers include Mozilla - the open-source operation uses Stonebraker's creation with open-source BI Pentaho to analyze billions of Firefox user log records per day in an attempt to improve product R&D. Guess.com, meanwhile, uses Vertica with MicroStrategy to analyze retail and inventory data in its US and European data centers.
Vertica's also landed some Web 2.0 big-data fish: Zynga, maker of the popular FarmVille and Mafia Wars hits on Facebook has come out as a relational fan for analytics. In a statement supporting Vertica 4.0, Zynga's vice president of analytics Ken Rudin called Vertica a "no wind-up toy", running a daily load of 40 million players and 3TB of data across 230 nodes and two clusters on the database's columnar data warehouse.
This wouldn't be so awkward if it weren't for the fact that Facebook has built its own big-data offering, Cassandra, which has its own take on columns. Cassandra's columns require a mind switch for those coming from a relational background, while Vertica provocatively calls itself "the only true enterprise-ready MPP columnar database" with an emphasis on "only" and "columnar database".
Stonebraker's other recent creation, VoltDB, which started operations in 2009, doesn't yet list any customers.
Roasting relational elephants
Stonebraker's not just critical of the NoSQL new wave: he's got plenty of fire left for the relational "elephants," Microsoft and Oracle. Increasingly, their answer to high-end relational processing is to boost the software by fusing it with the underlying hardware.
Oracle's built the Exadata server, a hardware appliance running Oracle's database that combines Smart Flash Cache to reduce bottlenecks and columnar compression to reduce data warehousing table size with solid-state multiterabyte storage arrays to offload data. Microsoft's partnered with Bull, Dell, EMC, HP and IBM on massively parallel processor appliances running SQL Server - SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.
The concepts are similar to Stonebraker's warehousing and analytics work, but Stonebraker has not allowed himself to become married to a small set of certified hardware suppliers with specialized chips or hardware. Stronebraker's goal is to achieve scale through software working on affordable, commodity hardware - taking advantage of multi-core CPUs and greater memory. According to Stonebraker, Oracle and Microsoft can just keep adding more expensive hardware but the fundamental problems or bottlenecks won't be solved.
Keep on keeping on
"VoltDB runs more transactions per second on fewer dollars than Exadata 2 on all its hardware," Stonebraker said. "If you give 20 nodes to the elephants, you get 20 nodes of performance. If you give the same 20 nodes to VoltDB, we will go a factor of 40 faster. This particular elephant runs for a while but there are problems with RAC and Exadata 2."
With SciDB coming, Stonebraker believes the technologies he helped turn into a multibillion-dollar industry no longer have the monopoly. But diversity doesn't mean abandoning the architectures of the past and he remains committed to the underlying principles of reliability, integrity and familiarity of SQL and relational in the world of big data.
What comes after SciDB for Stonebraker and for databases? Stonebraker still sees "horrible challenges" in data integration, especially unstructured and semi-structured data.
He quotes an unnamed New-York bank he once advised that was massively decentralized and had no easy way to establish a single customer list. "The bank couldn't tell IBM in Armonk was the same as IBM SA in Madrid and had no way to solve this problem. Eventually, with a lot of pain and suffering, they sent letters to all their customers asking: 'Who are you?'"
"My suspicion is the number-one cause of outages is human error and after that is badly tested apps, and everything else is way down. What we ought to be focused on in terms of high availability is probably not what we are focused on at all."
Scalability is a major issue and he points to Cassandra's father Facebook that runs MySQL "4,000 ways" and has added 9,000 instances of Memcached. "I shudder at how they keep that thing up, because it's glue and bailing wire and application-level recovery. They are desperate for anything that's more scalable and goes faster," he said.
For all that, he sees a world where NoSQL co-exists with relational and some NoSQL systems will survive a likely shakeout and consolidation. Features will also cross over: VoltDB, for example, will get a JSON interface, adding a document management model on top of SQL.
"The future will hold some number - maybe half a dozen or a dozen - of interesting data management alternatives that are very good at what they do and complement database systems like SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. Conventional legacy row stores will be one of the half dozen things and there will be others."
High availability is another concern especially as data gets bigger and services larger and supposedly more critical. Stonebraker's studying outages at an unnamed "major worldwide institution".
"My suspicion is the number-one cause of outages is human error and after that is badly tested apps, and everything else is way down. What we ought to be focused on in terms of high availability is probably not what we are focused on at all," he says.
It was the technology that inspired Stonebraker in 1973 when he started Ingres and stole a march on IBM: "Ted Codd's ideas were clearly superior to Codasyl and IMS. Hence my early interest in the technology," he said. And now, after 40 years?
"It is possible that DBMS research will peter out and there will be no more innovation. However, I doubt it." ®


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Signature-gathering is also underway in Colorado and in Arizona to put up similar labeling measures.
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Cash means no mortgage. You just pay them.
So why go thu the preapproval with their lender. They were expecting financing because of the preapproval requirement with their lender right? And its not like the amount is under 50k. Its still over 100k. I dont know just looking for answers because I am confused as to why they would change it now.
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13. FINANCING CONTINGENCY: The purchase Agreement is contingent upon the following and applies to the first
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16. If Buyer cannot secure the financing in the Purchase Agreement, and this Purchase Agreement does
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Is there anything like this in your offer? Once both parties sign the offer, it becomes a binding contract so if there is nothing about the financing and it's all signed, I'm not sure what would happen. If you did have this in the contract, you'd have to sign an amendment to change it to CASH. Maybe this is just their counter offer. As in, they'll accept your offer if you can pay cash for the house. If not, then you can counter-offer, say upping the purchase price if they'll let you get a loan.
Is the house in rough shape? Maybe the seller knows it won't pass an inspection/appraisal. I put an offer on a house and since I'm using FHA they wanted me to use HomePath (HUD House) because the house needed to be painted and they knew it wouldn't pass an FHA inspection.
How badly do you want the house?
What does your agent have to say about this?
I have to get my contract and check it to see, but I wanted to make this post before taking a final exam. Yes the house has nothing in it. The previous owners took everything out..(literally) which is why I applied for the 203k loan. My agent says that he has not had this ever happen to him before. So they want to relist the house for cash only. to see it any offers will come in. My agent was not happy about it and said that he is going to wait a week to find out who is where as far as decision making and resubmit the offer.
I do want the house...really I do!!........really really do!!
Oh and yes you are right....that is their counteroffer.
seller has the option to take cash only. sounds like they are idiots
I was thinking the same but being a first time homebuyer I was just wondering if it was me or if it were them. I knew there are cash offers out there, I just thought maybe .....eh! (speechless)
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seller has the option to take cash only. sounds like they are idiots
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We see kids all the time who are not up to date on their immunization vaccination schedule. Certain immunizations may be missed more than others. I certainly think it requires continued awareness.
You believe in the safety of vaccines, which in recent years have come under some questioning because of fears that they could cause forms of autism, which develops in the childhood years. You also know that studies have shown no link between vaccinations and autism spectrum disorders.
I would say there's a large amount of misinformation and conflicting information online. I always recommend people to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics). They're good resources. I think that helps.
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An Imaginative Experience
- Narrated by: Samuel West
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 01-03-2013
- Language: English
- Publisher: Audible Studios
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Regular price: $22.94
Publisher's Summary
A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of a sheep stranded on its back, unable to rise, in a field. Righting it, she turns, and he sees her face is full of tragedy. Considering tragedies of his own, he does not intrude, but the image lodges in his mind: a strange but familiar despair, unable, despite itself, to ignore the desperation it recognises in others.
From these seeds Mary Wesley draws out a plot of an unforgettable impact: of loss, of release, of a necessarily comic acceptance of fate, of love - the 'imaginative experience'. Rich in character and wit, and powerfully moving, this is a novel of the heart's pain and deliverance.
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- Cariola
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Great Characters, Wonderful Reader
This was a bit of fluff--in the best possible way. I'm at a stressful point at work and needed something fairly light (although it does have a vein of tragedy running through it). It begins when a young woman pulls the emergency brake on a train--something passenger Sylvester Wykes admits that he's always wanted to do but never had the guts. The reason Julia Piper pulled the brake? To help a sheep she had seen from her window who was stuck on its back. When they all disembark at the next station, Sylvester sees her again, mildly curious, but Maurice Benson takes a more stalkerish mode, determined to find out everything he can about her.
Wesley has created a group of intriguing characters not only in Julia, Sylvester, and Maurice, but in the secondary characters as well. There's Sylvester's soon-to-be ex-wife, Celia, who ran off with another man, denuding the house in the process; even things that had been handed down from his father were gone, as well as the teakettle he had just purchased to replace the one she had just taken. Rebecca, Sylvester's domineering former secretary, can't help herself from frequently popping in with attempts to take charge. It's great fun to see how the mild-mannered Sylvester gradually learns how to manage her. Much of the story centers around the shop on the corner, run by the agreeable Mr. Patel. Julia befriends his wife, despite her inability to speak English, and becomes close to the Patel's two little boys. Her mother, Clodagh, is the epitome of a horrible mother, for various reasons preferring her son-in-law to her own daughter. And there's a dog in the mix--a 'lurcher' eventually named Joyful.
In some ways, as one reviewer states, this is a pretty typical love story. But it's one with a little surprise around every corner. It has been a long time since I've read a Mary Wesley novel, and this one remionded me of how much I've enjoyed her others. I only wish that Audible would carry more unabridged editions. This one was read by Samuel West, who is my all-time favorite reader.
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Excellent Writer, Excellent Narrator
Where does An Imaginative Experience rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
It is among the best.
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Mary Wesley is such a good writer; it's a shame that this is the only one of her novels that Audible has in an unabridged version.
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- 10-02-2015
Lightly entertaining and inconsequential
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It reminds me a little of the film Sleepless in Seattle: lightly entertaining and inconsequential. The good characters need love and mothering, and the bad ones are enjoyably awful. Her observation of urban life is good though I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for acute insight. The dialogue is mostly well written but in a few places I thought it missed the mark.
The reading is gentle and pleasant to listen to though lacking expression in the dialogue. The production quality isn't as good as most audible books. The sound distorts slightly and the volume is unsteady. I still give it a solid 4 star recommendation, perhaps best for the holiday reading list.
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Dr. Behrens is a co-founder of Martek Biosciences Corporation, an algal biotechnology company that began in 1985. He currently serves as one of the directors and is involved in research focused on developing new products from microalgae. Prior to founding Martek, Dr. Behrens worked at Martin Marietta Laboratories where his work was on the use of algae as a component of NASA's Closed Environmental Life Support System for long duration space flight. Dr. Behrens is a graduate of UMBC, having received both Masters and Doctoral degrees from the Department of Biological Sciences, and previously a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences since 1988. He is currently an Adjunct Professor and annually teaches a portion of the undergraduate Plant Biology course. In 2002, Dr. Behrens received UMBC's Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award. He also serves on the Dean's Advisory Board for the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at UMBC.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. – The investigation into how and why the shooting at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown took place will take weeks to complete, Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance said at a press conference in Newtown Sunday morning.
"There are many pieces of the puzzle we don't have yet. The forensic part is very important. It's not done yet," Vance said. "And interviewing witnesses – we are far from done. The number of witnesses we need to talk to is immense," he said.
He also said that misinformation has been going out via social media, and that there are social media sites posing as the shooter, Adam Lanza, and as purporting to be people related to the crime. These are violations of federal and possibly state law, and will be investigated and prosecuted, he said.
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A new magazine, Chicagoland Scrapbooker, will debut from Motor City Publishing in Fall 2012, the company has announced.
Motor City Publishing currently publishes Michigan Scrapbooker magazine. The free magazine has 40,000 readers and it's quarterly issues cover stamping, scrapbooking and papercrafting. Content includes a variety of editorial topics as well as a local calendar of events. Like Michigan Scrapbooker, Chicagoland Scrapbooker will be distributed through local scrapbook retail stores.
"As we celebrate our fifth year at Michigan Scrapbooker, we are thrilled to branch out and provide a locally focused print resource to the Chicagoland area," said Carrie MacGillis, Editor and Publisher. "This publication will serve as the perfect go-to spot for the Chicago area scrapbooking community while boosting the support of brick and mortar businesses."
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Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan and seven other top executives won't receive cash bonuses for 2016, the bank said Wednesday in what it called a move to reinforce corporate accountability following a scandal involving millions of unauthorized accounts.
Along with forgoing cash bonuses, the top eight bank executives will a 50% reduction in the performance share equity awards they received in 2014 and that vested last year, the bank added in an announcement before U.S. financial markets opened.
The decision will result in a roughly $32 million aggregate cut in compensation, based on 2016 target bonuses and the current value of Wells Fargo shares, the bank said.
Shares of Wells Fargo (WFC) were up 2.9% at $59.56 in morning trading.
The cuts follow previously announced forfeitures of $41 million in unvested stock awards by now-retired Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf and $19 million in similar forfeitures by Carrie Tolstedt, the former head of the community banking division involved in opening millions of accounts that were not authorized by customers.
Announcing the decision amid a continuing internal investigation of the scandal, the bank said the cuts were not based on any findings of wrongdoing by any of Wells Fargo's current top management team.
"These compensation actions for the operating committee, though not related to any findings of improper behavior, are part of the board's ongoing efforts to promote accountability and ensure Wells Fargo puts customer interests first," board Chairman Stephen Sanger said in a statement issued with the cuts. "As we seek to regain trust, the board is taking decisive actions. We will continue to work to make right what went wrong and remain focused on providing the accountability and oversight that our customers, employees, and investors expect and deserve."


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Making the web interface configuration page "configurable"
If you notice that your Configuration page on the web interface won't allow you to make changes, then you may need to adjust permissions on the configuration file. The very first entry on the Configuration page lists the location of this file, usually at /etc/mt-daapd.conf . To make the web configuration work, you can cd to the directory where this configuration file is and modify its permissions:
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The Official inauguration event of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) will take place on 2 October in Helsinki.
The NATO Secretary General, Mr Jens Stoltenberg and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission, Ms Federica Mogherini will address the inauguration event. The establishment of the Centre has been one of the aims in the Common set of proposals for the implementation of the Joint EU/NATO Declaration (6 December 2016).
On behalf of the host country of Hybrid CoE, the Official inauguration event will be opened by the President of the Republic of Finland Mr Sauli Niinistö and closed by the Prime Minister of Finland Mr Juha Sipilä.
As the Official inauguration ceremony, the four speakers will sign the Centre's guest book as first signatories.
The Official Inauguration event will gather some 100 invited guests from the host country and 11 other participating countries of Hybrid CoE. The web-streaming of the Official inauguration event, produced by the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE, will be available at YLE Areena.
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The philosophy of aesthetics has become a widely acknowledged part of our lives. It refers to our innate need to define what is beautiful and what is not.
In the last decade a new field of study, called neuroaesthetics, has emerged which takes the philosophy of aesthetics one step further. By understanding the role of the brain we can begin to understand the neurological basis for why we find things more beautiful than others.
I believe the design world can learn a lot from the study of neuroaesthetics.
Using neuroaesthetics in website design
The practice of neuroaesthetics can and should be extended to website design. After all, like art, design is a product of our brains.
Therefore, the look and feel of a website experience and its interactions are critical factors in how it is perceived and whether it is considered to be aesthetically pleasing.
By putting human behaviour and emotion at the heart of design and considering why we find some designs more beautiful than others, we can learn more about how the brain works during the online experience.
An understanding can then be gained in the way people interact with digital technology, the reasons they do so, how choices are made and what the influencing factors are.
Using this information, designs that incorporate neurological insight and understanding can be created to provide the best possible experience for the user.
Understanding brain concepts
The concept of neuroaesthetics can help designers to understand human behaviour and emotion during the online experience by considering how brain concepts, which are either inherited (such as colour) or acquired and generated throughout life, help people make sense of the world around them.
There is a viewpoint within neuroaesthetics that the beauty of an object resides in the brain rather than the object. I believe this perspective can be extended to website design and that beautiful design exists in our brains as an individual and unique concept.
Abstraction is one of the fundamental brain functions that allow us to perceive a very specific element of a scene or artefact. In other words it allows us to make generalisations without being influenced by another particular feature. For instance, cells have been discovered in the brain that are orientation-selective.
For example, vertically orientated cells send a nervous impulse when they see vertical lines, but don't when they see horizontal lines. This provides a reason as to why geometry and symmetry are so important in design and why humans find such shapes aesthetically pleasing.
This demonstrates that abstraction is happening at a much lower level than has been previously considered. Simir Zeki, professor of neuroaesthetics at University College London and one of its founding fathers, explains that it represents a form of micro-consciousness - we may not actually be aware of it, but our brains are.
The way in which humans are predisposed to perceive colour before motion is another example of an inherited brain concept that we have absolutely no control over. Colour is perceived more quickly than motion by approximately 80 to 100 milliseconds. Whilst this difference may appear slight it could be massive in terms of 'neural time'.
This means the brain perceives colour and passes it on for further higher-level cognitive processing. Colour is integral to shaping our understanding and expectation of many things. Different colours can also represent different things for different cultures.
Expressions are another example. There are most likely evolutionary reasons why facial expressions are perceived before faces. In history, recognising a face within a group (or tribe) or faces that aren't in the group would have been very important. There will also be specific reasons for certain emotional expressions for example, sadness, happiness or disgust.
Understanding these concepts of the brain and how humans process design elements is an important factor in determining the design aesthetic and why we rate some designs as more beautiful than others.
Therefore once these factors are better understood they can be better considered in the design process.
Using neuroaesthetics to shape design for better user experience
In recent years designers have become increasingly aware of the importance of psychology in the design of digital systems and interaction.
The industry now needs to recognise the underlying brain behaviour and the relationship it has with psychology. Understanding that there is a fundamental relationship between psychology and neurology is very important as the brain drives emotions and learning, which are key factors in the online experience.
By putting human behaviour and emotion at the centre of the design process, a website can be created that will dramatically improve the user experience.
I therefore believe the design industry can prosper significantly from enriching its understanding of design by learning more about neuroaesthetics.
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Thoroughly enjoyed reading this article, this area of research really interests me. Thankyou
An incredibly in-depth article Simon and a pleasure to read. This type of stuff really fascinates me and it is great to see two field such as neurology and web design come together even though they may not conventionally appear to be compatible.
It is the pairing of seemingly unrelated subjects such as these which allows our industry to continue to excel.
A very interesting article indeed - and, presumably, as with art, people's perceptions of the aesthetic of a website will be hugely subjective, possibly culture led and massively open to interpretation, which is fascinating, but a potential minefield for global sites aimed at multiple countries, groups and cultures.
Looking at it from a personalisation angle, I see this as a challenge but actually "nothing more" than tailoring the aesthetic to suit the viewer.
Fascinating stuff.
Thank you Creative Risk, Gemma and Steve for your comments.
Steve your comments regarding cultural differences are extremely relevant. Culture, fashion even taste are important factors in our appreciation of aesthetic experience.
Also, aesthetics is not limited to art and covers many aspects of human behaviour including dance, music and literature. I suspect understanding neuroaesthetics can enrich our appreciation of how we create and imagine. So, its influence is very far reaching and deeply embedded within our behaviour.
I've included a link to a presentation I gave at UX Bristol.
Neuroaesthetics: science embraces art (UX Bristol) http://www.slideshare.net/Nomensa/neuroaesthetics-science-embraces-art-ux-bristol
I'll also be talking about it over the next 12 months as well as writing a series of further articles.
Interesting evidence-based recommendations. Not sure what being "in the brain" adds in terms of predictive power. In due course, that might be something. But now keeping it at the level of behaviour and response works ok too.
Hi Heather
Thank you for your comment.
It is my view that understanding the neural correlates of aesthetic experience will increase our understanding of behaviour.
As I suggested in the article we recognise the importance of psychology in design. Yet, it is the brain that drives psychology so focusing on neurobiology can provide an additional and valuable perspective that can further enrich our understanding of behaviour.


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After 20 years of helping to direct the educational system in Craven County, in December Becky Kafer is stepping down from the Board of Education.
After 20 years of helping to direct the educational system in Craven County, in December Becky Kafer is stepping down from the Board of Education.
Kafer decided not to run for another term this year and David Hale, who won the November election, will replace her on the board.
�I think it is good to have people with new energy and new ideas come on the board,� Kafer said. �After 20 years I felt it was time to get some new ideas on the board. � I look forward to seeing the new board reach our vision of becoming the highest performing system of public education in North Carolina�
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Before being voted on the board 20 years ago, and while Kafer�s children were in the Craven County school system, she was an active volunteer and volunteer coordinator at different schools.
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Another big change over the years Kafer has seen in education is technology. Now there are laptops and desk computers in classrooms and smart boards replacing blackboards. But it was the evolution of how people and how they grew and worked together, supported each other and encouraged each other over the years that impressed her, she said.
�Now everybody is working together rather than having so many silos as we had in education,� she said. �In earlier times, so often, people were trying to have their classroom be the best. Now teachers, administration and the central office administration are trying to work together in an effort to have all our students succeed.�
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�The board is doing so many more things than when I first came on,� she said. �Now it spotlights teachers at each school during the year and we visit schools and interview students and attend activities schools invite us to attend.�
Kafer�s greatest disappointment on the board was that the county has not yet bought the land for a new high school proposed for a site near Creekside between New Bern and Havelock, she said.
�I truly thought several years ago that land would have been bought and we would possibly be close to building a school there now,� she said. �Our high schools have been overcrowded for the last several years.�
But Kafer said she was very pleased with the new schools that have been built and the improvements made to existing buildings.
�Many of the school roofs were in terrible shape several years ago, and we have worked to replace them,� she said. �We are striving to keep all of these campuses as they should be, and we are continuously working to improve all aspects of the system.�
Carr Ipock, chairman of the Craven County Board of Education, said he started on the board at the same time as Kafer.
�We will certainly miss her,� Ipock said. �She is always focused and well prepared board member. She has participated actively in a number of things.�
Two areas Kafer was instrumental in were leading the stakeholders concern process, making sure concerns from people about the school were formally forwarded to the school administration to be addressed and not lost in the cracks; and overseeing board member training, making sure it was in line with the requirements for the job, Ipock said.
School board members are required by state law to have at least 12 hours of training annually that could include everything from ethics to keeping up with federal laws on IDA, or individuals with disabilities, changes, Ipock said.
The state School Board Association suggests school board members have 30 hours training per year, he said.
Those two accomplishments also led to Kafer being awarded the 2009 All-State School Board member, Ipock said.
�It has been a pleasure working with Becky,� he said. �She always brings energy and insight to our meetings.�
Kafer is optimistic about the school board and its direction, pointing out it has just been recognized with a new leadership award for work it did in the school system last year.
�The group now works beautifully together,� she said. �We really work as a team. There have been times we haven�t worked as well together but for the past several years we have. The board really has worked as a family in the last several years.�
Kafer said she will continue following the school board after she retires in December.
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